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	Fort Tours \| Fort Ticonderoga
		Fort Ticonderoga was built by the French from 1755-1758 as Fort Carillon located above the narrow choke-point between Lake Champlain and Lake George, which controlled the major north-south inland water "highway" during the 18th century.
		Due to this strategic location the Fort was the "key to the continent" as the superpowers of the 18th century, the French and the British, contested for empire in North America.
		In 1820, William Ferris Pell purchased the ruins of the Fort and the surrounding land to preserve it for posterity.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortticonderoga.asp (824 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga was seen as 'key to the continent' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Ticonderoga, situated high on a bank along the southwestern shore of Lake Champlain, was built by the French from 1755 to 1759 and originally called Fort Carillon.
		The fort was dubbed the "key to the continent" during the North American colonization in the first half of the 18th century.
		Renamed Fort Ticonderoga by the British, the fort remained in the hands of the redcoats for nearly two decades -- until Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys crossed Lake Champlain in the dark on the May 10, 1775 to commandeer the fortification during the first days of the American Revolution.
	cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/DayTrips/stories/dt_fort_ticonderoga.asp (792 words)

	The Battle of Ticonderoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Ticonderoga was a stronghold throughout the Revolutionary War in America during the years of 1775 to 1783.
		Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars of the eighteenth century.
		In 1755, Fort Carillon was built by the French on a military road on an Indian portage between the two lakes.
	darter.ocps.net /classroom/revolution/ticon.htm (285 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga, NY - Site on a Revolutionary Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Ticonderoga has been restored back to its original condition when the French first built the fort in 1755.
		In two decades, Fort Ticonderoga was the center of attack by great nations as many as six times, four times during the American Revolution.
		The surrender of Fort Ticonderoga marked the first overt military action by Americans against the British in their quest for American independence.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute4/ticonderoga/default.htm (1194 words)

	Capture of Fort Ticonderoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cannons captured at the fort were subsequently hauled away and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the stalemate at the siege of Boston.
		And secondly, the fort was situated in the strategic Lake Champlain valley, the route between the rebellious Thirteen Colonies and the British-controlled Canadian provinces.
		Meanwhile, Captain Noah Phelps reconnoitered the fort disguised as a peddler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga (1350 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Ticonderoga was the site of four battles over the course of 20 years.
		The fort was captured the following year by the British, under General Amherst, in the second Battle of Ticonderoga.
		The fort was now far interior to the border between Canada and the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga (1033 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga
		Fort Ticonderoga was built in 1755 by Michael Chartier de Lotbinère.
		The fort was to be built between Lake Champlain and Lake George.
		The new fort, which the French called Carillon, was a star shaped building with wooden walls that were filled with dried mud.
	members.tripod.com /~FortTic/Fort.html (392 words)

	Americans Capture Ft Ticonderoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Ticonderoga lay on the shores of Lake Champlain.
		Called Fort Carillon by the French, it was renamed Ticonderoga by the British after it was captured in 1759.
		The fort was positioned to cut the colonies in half, and two Americans, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, were determined to capture the fort.
	www.multied.com /Revolt/ticonderoga2.html (199 words)

	The Battle of Ticonderoga 1777
		Fort Ticonderoga was built by the French as Fort Carillon when they held Canada and the routes to the southern end of Lake Champlain.
		In 1758 during the French and Indian War Ticonderoga was the scene of a fearsome battle between the British and American colonists and the French under the Marquis de Montcalm.
		Ticonderoga was an important symbol for the Americans, who expected that the fort would keep the redcoats out of the northern colonies, particularly in view of the winter spent improving the fortifications.
	www.britishbattles.com /battle-ticonderoga-1777.htm (1560 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The French built Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain in 1755, during the French and Indian War, and it became a strategic portage point on the main water route to Canada.
		The French used the fort as a staging ground for the attack on Fort William Henry and then held it with a force of only 4000 men against nearly 16,000 British soldiers who tried to capture it in 1758.
		It was later seized by British troops under General Jeffrey Amherst, who renamed it Fort Ticonderoga.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461568379_761575603_-1_1/Fort_Ticonderoga.html (104 words)

	USS Ticonderoga Veterans Site
		Today, Fort Ticonderoga, restored to her pre- Revolutionary War grandeur, sits on the southern banks of Lake Champlain on the eastern border of New York State.
		TICONDEROGA sailed from Pascagoula in February, truly "Combat Ready," with a demanding schedule ahead, and with the knowledge that her systems, construction, and the TICONDEROGA men who man her are the very best.
		Ticonderoga returned to the combat area in late May. For the remaining two and a half months of the Pacific War, her planes made regular attacks on the Japanese home islands.
	www.ussticonderoga.com /info.htm (1954 words)

	Fortress - Articles - Fort Frontenac 1758
		It is unknown when they arrived at Fort Frontenac but as soon as they did, its commandant sent a courier to Montreal with the captured documents and gave notice that the fort was threatened.
		He had commanded at Fort Frontenac in the early 1720s when, before the building of forts Niagara and Toronto, it was the main French military post on Lake Ontario; he later served in Detroit and on the garrison staff of Montreal and as 'King's Lieutenant' (lieutenant-governor) of Trois-Rivières.
		The fort's guns were thus served by men unfamiliar with artillery and this certainly explains the lack of success of their shooting.
	www.ospreyfortress.com /articles/fort_frontenac.htm (4392 words)

	Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
		Fort Ticonderoga, a major point of contention during the French and Indian War, was now an inviting target for several reasons:
		American soldiers would remain in control of Fort Ticonderoga until it was abandoned by Arthur St. Clair during the Saratoga campaign two years later.
		Called Fort Carillon by the French, it was renamed Ticonderoga by tCapture of Fort Ticonderoga" May 11, 1775 Fort Ticonderoga lay on the shores of Lake Champlain.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1270.html (966 words)

	The Battle of Ticonderoga 1758
		Account: The French fort of Ticonderoga lay at the southern end of Lake Champlain, part of the long inland waterway that was the main route for a British land invasion of French Canada.
		Moncalm’s regular French battalions were positioned at various points along the river, the regiment of Berry at the fort, the main party at the Saw Mills further south and an advanced party at the southern end of the portage that bypassed the rapids.
		In August 1758 Bradstreet marched to Fort Frontenac, captured and destroyed the fort and the French flotilla on Lake Ontario.
	www.britishbattles.com /battle_of_Ticonderoga.htm (1354 words)

	Battles of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Herkimer was attacked and captured by French and Indians under Belletre in 1757.
		Fort Niagara and Fort Oswego were specially troublesome to the Mohawk Valley, and Fort Carleton, a new and strong work, built in '78 was well placed for sudden raids.
		This place (Fort Plain) was included in the Canajoharie settlement, and in 1780 felt severely the vengeance of the Tories and Indians, inflicted in return for the terrible desolation wrought by an army under Sullivan, the previous year, in the Indian country west of the white settlements.
	www.fortklock.com /Battles.htm (13346 words)

	Fall of Fort Ticonderoga
		Fort Ticonderoga had fallen into American hands at the beginning of the War for Independence and was regarded by many as an unassailable guardian of the rebels’ northern frontier.
		When word did reach Ticonderoga that the British were approaching, St. Clair believed that a show of force was likely, but that no real attempt would be made to take the fort.
		Fort Ticonderoga was not the fortress it had been in 1758.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1297.html (574 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga launches outreach; fundraising efforts needed for expansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TICONDEROGA — Fort Ticonderoga has plans to remind the world of its history as it begins a series of ambitious expansion projects, people attending the fort’s third-annual Community Meeting were told Tuesday night.
		The original 1908-1930 restoration of the fort was financed by the Pell family, which continues to take an active role in the fort’s operation.
		The fort’s annual community outreach was also marked by questions from the public on what the fort intends to do with the Fort Mount Hope historic site it owns, and whether it will soon renew a lease with the state for the popular public boat launch site it owns on Lake Champlain.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2001/02_2001/021420013.htm (960 words)

	Ethan Allen History: Fort Ticonderoga
		In the Spring of 1775, Fort Ticonderoga was captured for the American Colonies by a troop led by Ethan Allen.
		The fort is situated at a very strategic point at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, and had been in British hands since the Peace of Paris in 1763.
		At dawn on May 10th the fort was easily taken, as the garrison of a mere fifty men was indeed totally surprised.
	www.ethanallenhomestead.org /history/fort_ti.htm (228 words)

	Forts Carillon and Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain by James P. Millard
		Concerned that the venerable fort of St. Frederic at Crown Point would be unable to resist the growing threat from the English to the South, the French under Marquis de Lotbinière begin construction of a larger fort on the peninsula at the mouth of the stream from Lake George in October, 1755.
		The French have blown the magazine at Ticonderoga but the fort is still serviceable, so Sir Jeffrey sets out to restore it while building a new, more massive fort to the north at Crown Point.
		Diminished in importance, the fort is allowed to deteriorate, while the area around the lakes is settled by Colonists of English descent.
	www.historiclakes.org /Ticonderoga/Ticonderoga.html (1508 words)

	National Park Service - Colonials and Patriots (Fort Ticonderoga) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Strategically located at the junction of Lake Champlain and Lake George, Fort Ticonderoga was the key to both Canada and the Hudson Valley in the 18th century.
		Ticonderoga changed hands again when it fell to Burgoyne's British Army in the summer of 1777, but upon Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga it again passed into American possession.
		The fort is four-sided with bastions extending from its four corners.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec28.htm (609 words)

	Ft. Edwards Web Links to other F&I Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort St. Frederick was the earliest and one of the most imposing fortifications to be raised on the French claims of Lake Champlain sometime after the first French presence in 1731.
		New England's oldest surviving fort was built in 1754 as a storehouse and garrison at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River.
		Whereas the forts of the Virginia frontier were built by colonial soldiers or civilians, most of the major forts of Pennsylvania and New York were built by British engineers from plans still available in archives.
	www.fortedwards.org /links.htm (792 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga
		New York fort on the western shore of Lake Champlain that was originally a French fort, called Carillion, that was seized by the British in the French and Indian War.
		The fort was later captured by the Americans in their first "official" victory of the Revolutionary War.
		Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, along with Benedict Arnold, captured the fort on May 10, 1775.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/fortticonderogadef.htm (141 words)

	The American Revolution (Fort Ticonderoga)
		Fort Ticonderoga, which is located on Lake Champlain, became an objective for its stores of munitions and the strategic position of control that it held over the waterways to Canada.
		As a result, expeditions began to be planned to capture the fort.
		Arnold caught up with Allen and tried to take command of the expedition on the authority of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, but since he had none of his own men and the Green Mountain Boys would not follow him, it was agreed that the two men would share command.
	theamericanrevolution.org /battles/bat_ftic.asp (334 words)

	American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Ticonderoga, between Lake George and Lake Champlain, was built in the years 1755-1757 by the French to protect themselves against the British and to protect the fur trading routes.
		The colonists kept control of Fort Ticonderoga until July 5, 1777, when British forces, led by General Burgoyne captured it.
		On September 3, 1783, Fort Ticonderoga was returned to the Americans through the signing of the Treaty of Paris, in Versailles.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/pad/Defenders/forticonderoga2.htm (165 words)

	The Battle of Ticonderoga - May 10, 1775 and July 5, 1777 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fort Ticonderoga is about 100 miles north of Albany, New York and is between Lake George and Lake Champlain.
		The Continental Army's interest in capturing the fort was to have control of the waterways from Canada.
		Fort Ticonderoga was set on fire by the British forces and in 1909 was restored and turned into a museum that is still open today for visitors.
	www.vtgunsmiths.com /gmbsc/ticonder.html (713 words)

	French surrender fort, again
		Fort Ticonderoga was the scene of intense fighting during the French and Indian War.
		It was the fort's cannon staring down upon the British that convinced them to give Washington and his small rebel army their first victory in 1775, when they evacuated Boston.
		During the Revolutionary War, Ft. Ticonderoga was the scene of a daring surprise raid by American rebels that seized the fort from the British garrison.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1658194/posts (1260 words)

	Arthur St. Clair
		The Fort, upon Connolly’s seizure, was renamed, Fort Dumore in honor of Viginia’s Colonial Governor.
		This upstate New York fort was built to control the strategic route between the St. Lawrence River in Canada and the Hudson River to the south.
		The fort was used in the War for Empire and largely abandoned except for British military stores that remained there at the beginning of the Revolution.
	www.arthurstclair.com (7170 words)

	Vermont - History - Fort Ticonderoga
		Fort Ticonderoga is a large fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George.
		The fort was captured by the British under General Amherst in the following year.
		The fort was restored in 1909 and is maintained as a tourist attraction.
	www.virtualvermonter.com /history/ticonderoga.htm (510 words)

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